Election Process Quotes

• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Ideas

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Powerful, Voting

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully or not, is a sign that they are outside the norms of normal society.

  David Brooks

  Russia, Ideas, Fearless

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes.

  Barack Obama

  Outcomes, Hacking, Campaigns

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Agency, Two

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• I'm usually slow to move in these sorts of things [like primary election process ] because I need to know as much data as I possibly can. And then also, I think you know watching the DNC, several people said it's really not about one person and it's certainly not about once cause or one issue that needs to be tackled. It's the culmination of many thoughts, many ideas, but also power that needs to be combined and the efforts need to be combined.

  MC Lyte

  Moving, Thinking, Issues

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

  Gabe Newell

  People, Choices, Example

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• Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

  John Jay Hooker

  Effort, Challenges, Tennessee

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• The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.

  Riordan Roett

  Believe, Secret, Voters

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• As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections.

  Ilham Aliyev

  Successful, Thinking, Azerbaijan

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